(1996, 35mm, 84m) dir Christopher Guest w/Guest, Parker Posey, Catherine O’Hara, Fred Willard. A group of community-theater eccentrics in a small Missouri town undertake a deeply misguided campaign to impress a Broadway producer. Guest’s mockumentary, one of the funniest films of the 1990s, made him a leader of the form. 35mm print courtesy of film collector Steve Rybin.

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